The cancer ward / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Rebecca Frank.

A largely autobiographical account of a group of people who pass through the cancer wing of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, it is a vivid portrait of individuals in isolation whose collective concern is disease. Through stories of patients and doctors, political prisoners and bureaucrats, the...

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Main Author: Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
Other Authors: Frank, Rebecca
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: New York : Dial Press, 1968.
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Summary:A largely autobiographical account of a group of people who pass through the cancer wing of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, it is a vivid portrait of individuals in isolation whose collective concern is disease. Through stories of patients and doctors, political prisoners and bureaucrats, the young and the old, it probes the fears and the hopes of an entire cross-section of Soviet society. Cancer ward has been seen as a metaphor for the malignancy afflicting the Russian nation, but the moral and ethical questions it raises-about love and conscience, life and death, spiritual sorrows and triumphs-rise above their immediate political context to assure universal significance.
Physical Description:616 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:0374511993
9780374511999